Footage catches mobile Mattie’s drive time error

JUST last August, he accused Transport Minister Noel Dempsey of behaving like a “latter-day prince entitled to royal treatment” after the minister took the Government jet to Donegal rather than travelling by road.

But after being filmed apparently flouting the rules of those very same roads, Tipperary TD Mattie McGrath may have got himself in his very own right royal mess.

The renegade Fianna Fáil TD had just taken part in an interview “as Gaeilge” about this afternoon’s budget.